Drug kingpin Chicago’s new public enemy No 1

A drug kingpin in Mexico is being named as Chicago’s public enemy No 1 — a label first given to gangster Al Capone and one that hasn’t been used since the 1930s.

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is being singled out for his role as leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, which supplies the bulk of narcotics sold in the city, according to the Chicago Crime Commission and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

“Not since the Chicago Crime Commission’s first public enemy No 1 has any criminal deserved this title more than Joaquin Guzman,” said JR Davis, president of the Chicago Crime Commission.